Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's is committed to ensuring that its colleague base reflects the demographics of its customers and that in turn its management profile reflects that of its colleague base. It has worked hard to ensure that equality and diversity principles are part of its business as usual approach.
Flexible working options are open to everyone and it ensures that all staff go through equality and diversity awareness training. It has developed a more open and transparent approach to talent and succession planning and has instigated focus groups with women in its management pipeline to better understand any issues. It has recently developed a one to one coaching programme to help increase the number of women store managers. Its work in this area has seen an increase in the number of women it has in management positions. 28% of its senior management are now women and 33% of its middle management positions are held by women. Its commitment to more closely mirroring its customer base is also reflected in the way that its recruits board members. The company is mindful of ensuring a varied mix of skills and abilities on its board and it ensures that its search and selection process for such senior positions draws from the widest possible pool. It also works to gender proof the appointment process to ensure that it is as balanced and fair as possible.
Sainsbury's is committed to ensuring that its colleague base reflects the demographics of its customers and that in turn its management profile reflects that of its colleague base. It has worked hard to ensure that equality and diversity principles are part of its business as usual approach.
Flexible working options are open to everyone and it ensures that all staff go through equality and diversity awareness training. It has developed a more open and transparent approach to talent and succession planning and has instigated focus groups with women in its management pipeline to better understand any issues. It has recently developed a one to one coaching programme to help increase the number of women store managers. Its work in this area has seen an increase in the number of women it has in management positions. 28% of its senior management are now women and 33% of its middle management positions are held by women. Its commitment to more closely mirroring its customer base is also reflected in the way that its recruits board members. The company is mindful of ensuring a varied mix of skills and abilities on its board and it ensures that its search and selection process for such senior positions draws from the widest possible pool. It also works to gender proof the appointment process to ensure that it is as balanced and fair as possible.
